Of that money, $300 million was evenly divided between restoration projects administered by the NFWF and an offshore oil safety research endowment administered by the NAS.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences got its longed-for research endowment, and Linköping was given university status in 1975.
As for education, Manchin created a "Bucks for Brains" program in 2008 with a $50 million research endowment split between Marshall University and the University of West Virginia.
However, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had no official research endowment, and hence no graduate students and, although it wanted to expand into research, the government said no. Research at Sweden's existing universities was enough for the country's needs, it said; nobody needed more of the same.
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Philanthropic support for museum-based research through endowments and foundations is significantly more prominent in the United States than in Canada.
Private universities face a decline in federal dollars attached to research grants; endowment returns are unlikely to achieve the double-digit norms of a few years ago; and the relentless rise in tuition (which Bennett blames partly on the ready availability of government grants and loans) is unsustainable.
Though often long established, and with good local reputations, these schools lack the endowments, research facilities and sheer size needed to compete with U.S. and British powerhouses like Harvard, M.I.T., Cambridge and Stanford.
Madoff Scandal Hits Scientists Fallout from the Bernard Madoff scandal is taking its toll on funding for health and science research, as the endowments of many foundations dry up, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Funded by an endowment, research continued at the institution for at least 25 years after al-Ṭūsī's death, and some of its astronomical instruments inspired later designs in Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan).
